* Saltini A. Storia delle scienze agrarie, 4 vols, Bologna 1984 – 89, ISBN 978-88-206-2412-5, ISBN 978-88-206-2413-2, ISBN 978-88-206-2414-9, ISBN 978-88-206-2414-9

* 1984 – Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.

* 1900 – Leo Robin, American songwriter and composer ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Max Bemis, American singer, musician, and songwriter ( Say Anything, Two Tongues, and Max Bemis and the Painful Splits )

* 1984 – Siboniso Gaxa, South African footballer

* 1984 – Michaël Ciani, French footballer

* 1984 – Shawn Daivari, American wrestler and manager

* 1984 – Lee Roache, English footballer

* 1896 – Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress ( d. 1984 )

* 1906 – Ed Gein, American serial killer ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – David Bentley, English footballer

* 1984 – Sulley Muntari, Ghanaian footballer

* 1906 – Vic Dickenson, American trombonist ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Sofia Essaïdi, French-Moroccan singer, dancer, and actress

* 1984 – Vedad Ibišević, Bosnian footballer

* 1984 – Paul Gallagher, Scottish footballer

* 1984 – L ' Aura, Italian singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer

* 1984 – Niko Kranjčar, Croatian footballer

* 1984 – Lidi Lisboa, Brazilian actress

* 1984 – Boone Logan, American baseball player

* 1984 – James Morrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Bodyline, a fictionalised television miniseries based on the " Bodyline " Ashes series of 1932 – 33, screened in Australia in 1984, to significant public interest and critical acclaim.

* 1907 – Mary Hamman, American writer ( d. 1984 )

* 1984 – Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer

* 1984 – Marvin Gaye, American singer ( The Moonglows ) ( b. 1939 )

* 1911 – Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani Urdu poet, Lenin Peace Prize winner ( d. 1984 )

On December 12, 1984, Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya deposed Haidallah and declared himself Chairman of the CMSN.

** Ahmed Sékou Touré, African politician ( d. 1984 )

Professor Ahmed Ali's: Al-Qur ' an: A Contemporary Translation ( Akrash Publishing, Karachi, 1984, Reprinted by Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1987 ; Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1988, with 9th reprinting 2001 ), brought new light to the translations of the Qur ' an with Dr. Fazlur Rehman of the University of Chicago saying: " It brings out the original rhythms of the Qur ' anic language and the cadences.

Professor Ahmed also worked as visiting professor in Cornell University in the United States in 1984 and the German Technical University and University of Göttingen in Germany in 1984.

Ahmed Seku Ture ) ( January 9, 1922 – March 26, 1984 ) was an African political leader and President of Guinea from 1958 to his death in 1984.

There are no constitutional limits on a Prime Minister's term but the longest-serving was Mohamed Ben Ahmed Abdelghani, who served from 1979 to 1984.

* Faiz Ahmed Faiz ( 1911 – 1984 ), a Pakistani Urdu poet

Through 1983 and 1984, the family remained in Bahrain while the children were in school, and during the summer holidays Ahmed would travel to Pakistan while his wife took the three children back home to Scarborough, Canada where they lived with her parents.

The Toyota Landcruiser Khadr owned, with a number of workers measuring an irrigation canal. During his 1984 summer in Pakistan, Ahmed decided to join Lajnat al Dawa, a Kuwaiti-run relief organisation seeking volunteers to help with Afghan refugees living in Pakistan.

In 1984 the Mengistu government jailed many leading SSDF members, such as then colonel Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed.

* Abdel Hamid Ahmed ( born 1984 ), Egyptian footballer ( El-Ahly )

In 1984, he acted as Dr. Aziz Ahmed in David Lean's film of A Passage to India, bringing him to the attention of Western audiences.

* Mr. Salehuddin Ahmed ( MM 1984 )-Director, Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee

Mohammed ben Ahmed Abdelghani ( 18 March 1927 – 22 September 1996 ) () was the prime minister of Algeria under President Chadli Bendjedid from March 8, 1979 until January 22, 1984.

* Salim Ahmed Salim Prime Minister, Tanzania, 1984 – 1985 ; Secretary General, OAU, 1989 – 2001

* Ammar Ben Ahmed ( 1984 – 85 )